Survey Data
Reg No
15503019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1870 - 1875
Coordinates
304836, 122066
Date Recorded
16/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built 1873, on a corner site possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1840, on site with square-headed carriageway to right ground floor, and two-bay three-storey return to east. Renovated, c.1975, with replacement wrap-around 'shopfront' inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan incorporating hip to corner with clay ridge tiles, chimney stack(s) not visible, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties retaining cast-iron conical hopper and downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls over random rubble stone construction incorporating sections of red brick irregular bond construction with chamfer to corner to ground floor, and rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded rendered surrounds having entablatures to first floor (no surrounds to return), and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed carriageway to right ground floor with no fittings. Replacement wrap-around 'shopfront', c.1975, to ground floor with fixed-pane (two-light) display windows having supporting pillars behind, glazed timber panelled door having overlight, and timber fascia. Interior with run-moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling to first floor having decorative plasterwork ceiling rose. Street fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front [VO].
Appraisal
Occupying a prominent corner position at the meeting of Main Street North with Charlotte Street, a well appointed modest-scale house representing an element of the mid to late nineteenth-century built legacy of Wexford Town retains most of the original composition attributes, including refined rendered accents producing a muted Classical theme, together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior including decorative plasterwork accents of some artistic design potential, thus making a positive contribution to the character of the immediate setting.